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The country’s first ever fine dust alert was issued in Seoul on Thursday, as fine and ultrafine dust particles continued to be blown in from China.The Seoul city government issued an alert as of 4 p....
Updated : 2013.12.05 20:24
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Song Hong-bin, a 22-year-old college student in Seoul, regrets his choice of an all-English class this semester.Unable to comprehend lectures and conversations, he is only left with frustration and a sense of inferiority. “I chose the class to learn real-life English. But I feel like I’m...
Updated : 2013.12.05 20:22
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According to a survey released by Statistics Korea on Wednesday, most elderly people do not want to live together with their children and most Koreans read online or offline newspapers. The agency pol...
Updated : 2013.12.05 20:21
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The spy agency’s bombshell announcement of the fall of the North Korean leader’s powerful uncle came when suspicions were building that the presidential office played a role in the downfall of a defiant chief prosecutor. In similar fashion, the news on the prosecution’s investigation in...
Updated : 2013.12.05 20:19
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The prosecution on Thursday raided the home and office of an official suspected of requesting a presidential staffer to check the personal information of a child alleged to be an illegitimate son of f...
Updated : 2013.12.05 20:18
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A mid-level presidential staffer underwent questioning by prosecutors over suspicions that he illegally accessed personal information of a child suspected of being the illegitimate son of former top prosecutor, prosecution officials said Thursday.Cho Oh-young is under suspicion of illegall...
Updated : 2013.12.05 16:24
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The ministries of gender equality, justice and labor will conduct a joint inspection of local businesses hiring foreign performers to tackle a growing number of prostitution and wage exploitation cases being reported in recent years, officials said Wednesday.The measure came after civic gr...
Updated : 2013.12.04 20:14
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The state spy agency used automated messaging programs to spread large numbers of online posts favoring the ruling party ahead of last year's parliamentary and presidential elections, opposition lawmakers claimed Wednesday.The claim comes amid snowballing allegations that the National Inte...
Updated : 2013.12.04 16:46
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The 1 million-kilowatt reactor 3 of the Hanbit (formally Yeonggwang) Nuclear Power Plant in South Jeolla Province was partially suspended on Monday due to problems in a power generator, officials said...
Updated : 2013.12.04 10:48
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U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon and figure skater Kim Yu-na are the top Korean role models for local college students, a survey showed Wednesday.The survey by Kim Jae-won, an economics professor at...
Updated : 2013.12.04 09:51
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Denmark and New Zealand are seen as the world’s least corrupt countries, according to graft watchdog Transparency International’s annual survey. South Korea’s ranking fell to 46 from last year’s 4...
Updated : 2013.12.03 20:17
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A South Korean homeless man told the police last Thursday he had lost a wallet containing 1.91 billion won ($1.8 million) in it, local media reported Monday.The 53-year-old surnamed Park reported to the police at Bupyeong-gu, Incheon, that he was missing a wallet which had contained 19 cas...
Updated : 2013.12.03 20:04
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The presidential office is looking into allegations that one of its staffers was involved in the leak of personal information concerning a child suspected to be the illegitimate son of former Prosecutor General Chae Dong-wook, an official said Tuesday.A local newspaper has reported that th...
Updated : 2013.12.03 09:31
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The prosecution has reportedly found circumstantial evidence indicating that Cheong Wa Dae may have played a behind-the-scenes part in pressuring the former prosecutor general to resign over a suspected extramarital affair and love child, according to reports quoting officials Monday.Accor...
Updated : 2013.12.02 20:13
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The Ministry of Justice repealed a rule that requires foreign students seeking a part-time job to submit a recommendation letter from a professor.Students now only have to hand in a confirmation document from the school administration, the ministry said on Monday.The government made both d...
Updated : 2013.12.02 20:13
